Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells ...

In doing so, he propelled an art movement that would later come to be known as Neoclassicism, painted by the like of Jacques-Louis David and others who would later dominate the period. As the nation’s ...

The French architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, the official architects of Napoleon, introduced a neoclassical style informed by an archaeological approach to the ...